Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day just before he wound up the turbulent Ford hearings, preparatory to submitting his report to the three-man Labor Board in Washington, Examiner Lindsay gave a little dissertation on the theory of Labor Board hearings, a type of procedure which has baffled many another lawyer beside Mr. Colombo. Said the trial examiner...
...Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased the Khan because it meant the regiment would follow through the pass to certain slaughter. When Old Boots ignored the volleys of the hillmen to stalk up alone...
...nuts. The prime fur is so dense that fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound is only a pinprick, does not injure the pelt. Price of each pelt may be as low as $50 for a coarse, short-haired specimen, $500 for a particularly fine...
Last summer two St. Louis boys decided to enter the field. Little knowing what their luck would be. Robert Urian Jr., 22. and Charles Curry, 23, left for South America. In Peru a guide led them on a chase after chinchillas and they wound up with a plant by the same name. In Lima they ran low on money, so Partner Curry hurried back to the U. S. to recoup. Partner Urian went on to Chile, arrived with only $30. Near Santiago he found a man who had trapped several chinchillas and would sell five. When Partner Curry finally rejoined...
...large cardboard boxes on which their names were neatly stamped. The boxes were boosted into a moving van which rumbled out of town that evening. In the 6 a. m. quiet of Saturday morning the Coryell staff reassembled with their families, piled into 13 automobiles festooned with banners and wound off in a honking caravan toward Colorado Springs, 600 mi. away. A cameraman hired by L. L. Coryell & Son stood beside the road to film the spectacle -a whole business going away for the summer...